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A seven-week-old lion cub looks a little nervous as he meets his stern-looking
dad for the first time. The moment was captured by Suzi Eszterhas, a
photographer from California, who followed a pride in the Masai Mara
National Reserve, Kenya, for three months.

She caught sight of this cub and his two litter-mates when they were three
weeks old and followed them as they grew. It meant that she was on hand when
the lioness first brought them out of their den to meet the rest of the
pride, including their father. Ms Eszterhas said: “The cub was a bit